“The treatment of amputees is in the dark ages, and COVID only made the dark ages darker,” said Dr. Demetrios Macris, a vascular surgeon in San Antonio, Texas.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
A trio of reporters offer a masterful examination of the overuse, underuse and misuse of medical care in America.
This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."
Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
Faced with daunting gaps in water and sewer systems, some Alaska Native communities are thinking small.
That state’s new drug reform is keeping users out of jail — but getting them help for addictions has been elusive.
The Cook County state’s attorney recently learned her former physical trainer is addicted to heroin and has been in and out of jail for it.
In Chicago, thousands of drug possession arrests are routinely tossed out every year. The cost to taxpayers? Millions. To those arrested? The loss of jobs, housing, freedom.
Part 1: For some Alaska villages, the lack of modern water and sewer service means more health risks
Many residents of rural Alaska suffer higher rates of illnesses because they lack basic infrastructure.